More From William Hazlitt
- "I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."
- "A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."
- "Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"
More In Art
- "Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art."― Jerry Saltz
- "As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art."― Albrecht Durer
- "Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."― Gustave Flaubert